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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Backwards cat
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Date: 15 Dec 89 20:48:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose)

In article <6488@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, odin@ucscb (Jon Granrose) writes:
| I am looking for a program that will cat a file backwards.  Not with all the
| letters reversed but one that prints the last line, then the second to last
| line, 3 from the last line, etc.)  If it doesn't exist then I will write my
| own but I thought I'd ask first.

Don't write your own... get Perl...

perl -e 'print reverse(<>);'

Simple, eh?

Just another Perl hacker,
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